"He was going a little fast but not that fast"
Ok, so he was only a "little" bit selfishly endangering everyone else on the road.
Your friend is an asshole, and the cop is doing me a favour by doing whatever he can to your friend. Good on him.
Ok, so he was only a "little" bit selfishly endangering everyone else on the road.
Your friend is an asshole, and the cop is doing me a favour by doing whatever he can to your friend. Good on him.
You can get a ticket for being 1km/h above the limit but you only get (permanent record) points in Flensburg if you're 21km/h above the limit within city limits. I guess everybody is fine if drivers go above the limit up to 20km/h. It seems to me the speed limit in Germany are always set with that buffer (10%) in mind.
Actually, society has made clear exactly the opposite. Speeding is the classic example of illegal but not abhorrent behavior.
Society also thinks it can safely multitask, and is good at being on a cell phone and driving at the same time. It is wrong about that too, but it still makes the behavior not abhorrent :)
At the same time, the same Society seems happy to excoriate anyone who causes a problem (death, accident, whatever) while doing either of the above. Go figure.
Congress designated a national speed limit of 55 mph in the 70s to conserve energy. Now many states are looking to raise it (several have already).
So, no, his friend isn't "an asshole". He was merely approaching the speed he should be driving.
The US has far too many laws. Many exist to simply ensure a consistent stream of income and people for the growing police/court/incarceration complex and their public employee unions. The laws are enforced inequitably - on some portions of the population far more than others (what happened to "EQUAL JUSTICE"?) We could remove 80% of them tomorrow and see no change.